Spousal abuse is a crime. Family is a centre of the society. A stable family makes a stable society. Spouse abuse makes an unstable family, human right even body is hunted. Spousal abuse in families can take many forms. It may be emotional, physical, verbal, or a combination of any or all of those.
Spousal abuse may be emotional. Spousal abuse may be do something abuse another. For example, I had a neighbour when I was in China. The women who did not care their child used to play overnight. When her husband went to business, she sometimes picked her child up to my home. She said “I will come back soon!” then she disappeared all night. After her husband knew it, she always played almost a week out of home. Her husband could not find her. Her husband‘s was abused. And the child ,too.
Spousal abuse may be physical, spousal abuse hurts their body. For example, the husband was very angry even if he wanted to kill her. He began to strike his wife when he saw her. After a year, they divorced.
Spousal abuse may be verbal, one of them always say something that another does not like. For example, a wife always said: “you are poor that you cannot make money, or you are so lazy that you do not do anything”. She used verbal hurt her husband‘s feeling. After long time, they began to fight.
Spousal abuse causes people who can not continue to work, wanted to kill somebody and made someone stressful. So I think spousal abuse is a crime.